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Virtual Reality Transforms Assessment of Patients With Upper Limb Movement Challenges
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2025/03/Virtual-Reality-Helps-Upper-Limb-ChallengesA team of clinicians and engineers is collaborating to combine motion analysis technology with virtual reality to help patients with upper limb differences who weren’t previously able to benefit from motion analysis.
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Shriners Children’s St. Louis Leads Way in Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2022/01/Rheumatoid-Arthritis-ResearchStudy shows modified cells automatically release biologic drug in response to inflammation. Shriners Children's Farshid Guilak, Ph.D. leads this revolutionary research.
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Inpatient Rehabilitation Program is a Bridge to Life After Traumatic Injuries
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2024/04/Inpatient-Rehabilitation-Bridge-to-LifeChildren, adolescents and teenagers are increasingly surviving life-altering tragedies thanks to pioneering medical advancements.
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Galveston Artist Robert Peterson "Draws" Shriners Hospitals for Children Staff Together for One Mission
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/09/Galveston-artist-Robert-Peterson-draws-Shriners-Hospitals-for-Children-staff-together-for-onePeterson’s cartoons represent everyone at Shriners Hospitals for Children — Galveston – from nurses and lab technicians to administrative and support staff members.
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Caring for Patients with Juvenile Arthritis
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/07/Caring-for-patients-with-juvenile-arthritisJuvenile arthritis affects nearly 300,000 children in the United States. Pediatric rheumatologist Linda Wagner-Weiner, M.D., leads a multidisciplinary family-centered care team.
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Sharing Our Research in Human Movement
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/07/Sharing-our-research-in-human-movementA biomedical engineer from our motion analysis center and two graduate students presented to the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS). The researchers from the Chicago Shriners Hospital presented projects conducted in our hospital gait lab involving foot and ankle biomechanics for pat...
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Hip dysplasia in children
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/09/Displasia-de-cadera-en-niosShriners Hospital is a pioneer in Latin America and has a hip clinic aimed at patients 3 months of age and older with this pathology, and offers treatment follow-up. Regarding the subject, we interviewed Dr. Roberto Galvan, who is the Chief of the teaching department of the hip pathology clinic, so ...
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Trifecta of 'Nobel Prize' Awards
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/02/Trifecta-of-Nobel-Prize-awardsFarshid Guilak, Ph.D., has won what industry insiders call the Nobel Prize for orthopaedics – for the third time. The director of the Research Center at Shriners Hospitals for Children — St. Louis earned this year’s Kappa Delta award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons as he celebrates...
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Surgeon Creates Colorful Cast Art at Shriners Children’s
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2022/06/Surgeon-Cast-ArtFelicity Fishman, M.D., doesn’t just fix hand and finger differences in children, she also cares for their tiny hearts with customized cast art.
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Shriners Children’s Research Director Named to National Academy of Medicine
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2022/10/Guilak-National-Academy-of-MedicineFarshid Guilak, Ph.D., research director at Shriners Children’s St. Louis, recently received one of the highest honors in the field of health and medicine. He has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
